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April 2012www.sname.org/sname/mt Vaughan Pomeroy began his engi- neering career with aircraft man- ufacturer British Aircraft Corporation, and then worked with an international practice of consulting engi- neers, Mott, Hay and Anderson. He then spent more than 30 years, until June 2010, with Lloyds Register, ultimately as the marine technical director responsible for the technical policy of the marine business of the classication society. He has been a visiting professor at the University of Southampton since 2004 and now works with the university to facili- tate links between industry and the research community. He also is a visiting professor at the College of Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, in Singapore, and is an engineering graduate of the University of Cambridge. Professor Albert Rodger graduated from the University of Aberdeen with rst class honors in civil engineering in 1973 and a doctorate of philoso- phy in 1976. He moved to the academic sta of the univer- sity in 1979 and was appointed to the chair of civil engineer- ing in 1997. During his career, he has engaged in award win- ning-research, which has led to a number of patented and licensed inventions. Rodger was awarded the Silver Medal of the Royal Academy of Engineering in 2000, and was appointed as the rst director of the newly-established NSRI in 2008. He is currently vice principal for external a airs at the University of Aberdeen and chair of the Research and Knowledge Exchange Committee of the Scottish Funding Council. In July 2010, he was elected a fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering. Dr. Srinivas Sriramula has been a lecturer in safety and reli- ability in the School of Engineering at the University of Aberdeen since August 2009. Before that, he was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Surrey. He received a PhD from the Indian Institute of Technology Madras, focusing on Copula-based simulations for engineering systems and has a masters degree in structural engineering and a bachelors degree in civil engineering. Dr. Andrew Starkey is a Lecturer in the Engineering Department at University of Aberdeen. He completed his PhD on condition monitoring of ground anchorages in 2001 and has interests in optimiza- tion techniques, automated data analysis techniques, and autonomous learning tech- nologies. As well as typical engineering applications of this technology, he has col- laborated with researchers in biology, in particular for the analysis of genomic data on a genome-wide scale. is work has resulted in a publicly- available Web site for genomic analysis. Starkey also has devel- oped new technologies for the automated analysis of numeri- cal and textual data, and these have resulted in a spinout company from the university, BlueFlow Ltd, for which he is CEO. Robert L. Sumwalt was sworn in as the 37th mem- ber of the National Transportation Safety Board in August 2006. In November 2011, President Obama appointed Sumwalt to a second ve-year term, which ends December 31, 2016. He was a pilot for 32 years, including 24 years as an airline pilot with Piedmont Airlines and then US Airways. He co-authored a book on air- craft accidents and has written extensively on safety matters, having published more than 80 articles and papers in trade publications. In 2003, he joined the faculty of the University of Southern Californias Aviation Safety and Security Program, where he was the primary human factors instructor. Sumwalt is a graduate of the University of South Carolina. Dr. Charles H.-T. Wang earned a bachelor of sci-ence from National Taiwan University and a PhD at Lancaster, and is a reader in dynamics and the Cruickshank Lecturer in Astronomy at the University of Aberdeen. He has led research projects in gravitational physics and nonlinear dynamics, and is interested in relativity. He has pioneered methods of probing gravitational uctuations using atom interferometry. Wang has collaborated with industries in microelectronics, defense, and oil and gas, and is devel- oping applications of precision gravity sensing using quantum techniques. He is the IOP coor- dinator for NE Scotland and editor of the Springer Briefs in Physics Series. Feature Contributors continued (feature contributors) On the Horizon In the next issue of (mt) magazine, well be exploring the ways in which modeling and simulation enable better and more ecient design of ships and oshore structures. Included will be content focused on: And much more, all in the next issue of (mt) magazine + Simulation of escape routes, evacuation, and safety in passenger vessel design + Modeling ?re progression and damage control in ship design + The application of CFD to propulsion performance prediction and seakeeping performance